What is it about?
Patients with lung cancer, who have their cancers removed and those with malfunctioning airway cartilage suffer with breathing difficulties, and many die without a solution to keep their airways open. Airway stents are used to allow this to occur, but these are all currently a one-geometry fits all. The solution is to use 3D-scanning and 3D-printing technology to create perfect fitting airway stents to improve these designs.
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Why is it important?
A proper fitting airway stent will allow improved patient outcomes and increased probability of survival.
Perspectives
Seeing patients struggle to breathe after their cancers have just been removed, with wheeze and discomfort is a terrible sight. Ensuring that this complication is resolved and patient outcomes are improved is the way forward.
Jesse Xu
University of Sydney
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This page is a summary of: The utility of 3D-printed airway stents to improve treatment strategies for central airway obstructions, Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy, September 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/03639045.2018.1522325.
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